Parables and Fables As Distinctive Jewish Literary Genres The Origin and Structure of Indirect Speech About God

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A book that concerns itself with the historical development of the fable or parable as a way of communicating knowledge and truth, in both Judaism and Christianity.

Title Parables and Fables As Distinctive Jewish Literary Genres The Origin and Structure of Indirect Speech About God
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Abbreviations for Parables
Foreword
Prologue
A. Jewish Parables and Fables: The New Testament and the Classics of Formative Judaism as Sources
B. Parables and Fables Considered Through a Wider Lens
Part One
Chapter One: Draw Near the House of Learning
A. The Reader and the Text
B. Strings of Literature
Chapter Two: In Quest of the Divine Human Voice
A. Which is the Great Commandment?
B. Non Havles Mancura- Do Not Speak in Error
C. Let Those Among You Come
D. Open Up the Gates of Light
E. There Shone Forth Wisdom
Chapter Three: Form and Authorship: Oral and Written StoriesThe Case of Rabbi Jose of Yokeret's Workers and the Parable of the Fig Tree
Chapter Four: The Storyteller and the Story
Part Two
Introduction/ Transition to Chapters Five and Six
Chapter Five : Parables and Fables: Examples of Ancient and Modern Educational, Religious, and Political Communication Praxes
A. Introductory
B. Parable Use in the Ancient Near East and in Ancient Israel
C. Fable Use in Ancient Isreal and in the Ancient Near East
D. Parables and the New Testament Era: Teaching that Culminates in an Unexpected End
E. 'Jesus' as ""Parabolist/Parabolizer""F. (Jesus') Parables and Some Church Fathers
G. Parables, Fables, and the Late Modern Writer/Activist
Chapter Six: Some Visual Art Concerning Parables
Conclusion to Chaperts Five and Six
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Author Bios
Extent 1 online resource (382 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718786905171
MARC RECORDS
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